Re: Blocking Spam

["jdow" <jdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Florin Andrei" <florin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> jdow wrote:
> > (I jettison the Fedora RPM and use cpan. That
> > gives you a "canonical" install.
>
> yum install cpan2rpm
>
> Then you can run cpan2rpm on any tar.gz from CPAN and build RPM packages. 
> That's twice "canonical" - you're using the newest CPAN stuff _and_ it's 
> all in RPM.
>
> > I have a dummy spamassassin RPM that installs nothing other than the
> > knowledge that a dummy spamassassin is present to satisfy the YUM 
> > monster.
>
> No need to do that. Just pull all the prerequisites from CPAN, run 
> cpan2rpm on each one and install the packages, then build and install the 
> spamassassin RPM (rpmbuild -ta spamassassin*.tar.gz).

cpan gives the opportunity to install dependancies on the fly.
{^,-}

Cpan does NOT allow uninstall in any convenient manner I have found.
{O,o} to me.

You win some and you lose some.

{^_^}